Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) becomes the first sitting Democratic Member of Congress to call on President Joe Biden to make what he acknowledges is a "painful and difficult decision to withdraw" from this year's presidential election, saying about last week's debate with Republican Donald Trump, “Instead of reassuring voters, the president failed to effectively defend his many accomplishments and expose Trump’s many lies.”
A New York Times article is headlined, "Biden's Lapses Are Said to Be Increasingly Common and Worrisome".
President Biden today is briefed at the DC Emergency Operations Center about extreme weather, including the heat wave across the U.S and the Category 5 hurricane in the Caribbean. He talks about a proposed Labor Department rule creating the first ever standards to protect workers from extreme heat, such as access to water, shade and rest breaks.
A federal judge puts a hold on the president's pause on new permits for Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) exports, a pause the president justified in part due to climate effects of the greenhouse gas. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) applauds the judge's action.
A half billion dollars in grants from the 2022 Chips & Science Act is announced to create a dozen technology hubs around the country.
New Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille meets in Washington with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, while the newly-arrived police from Kenyan help patrol the streets of Haiti's capital, which have been controlled by armed gangs for 18 months.
UN senior coordinator for aid to Gaza briefs the United Nations Security Council on the war between Israel and Hamas.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is at the Pentagon with Ukraine's minister of defense, saying another military aid package is coming soon.
Today is the 60th Anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson signing of the Civil Right Act of 1964.
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